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Contact Lenses

by rif887, Feb 24, 2009 09:05AM
I wear contact lenses 12 hours a day- The brand i am using is ACCUVE OYASIS - I uesd to sleep with contact lenses for 1 hour daily? Is it healthy  to sleep with it?  
Also tell me what should be the difference in number of glasses and contact lense - suppose if number for glass is -7 what shoulb the number for contact lense
Regards
riffat
Member Comments (1)

by Ray T Oyakawa, MD, Feb 24, 2009 02:35PM
To: rif887
I do not recommend sleeping in contact lenses-one hour is probably ok.

If glasses are -7,  contacts should be less may be -6.25--you have to consult a table for the conversion.

Dr. O.

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